Cromwell Lodge

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (north side)

9/97 No. 39 (Cromwell 31.10.66 Lodge)

GV II

House. C18 and C19. Timber framed and brick, all plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Long main range facing S, of which the right part is wider and higher than the remainder. The left part has one axial stack in the middle and one at the left end. The right part has a rear stack and a wing beyond. 2 storeys. Beyond this wing is a C19 single-storey extension, weatherboarded with an end stack, and a small C20 extension with a flat roof. Behind the left part of the main range is a wing with a stack in the left side. Between the 2 rear wings is a C19 2-storey lean-to extension with slate roof. Ground floor, one tripartite sash of 2-4-2 lights, 2 sashes of 4 lights, one splayed bay of 2-2-2 lights, all late C19. First floor, one similar tripartite sash and 4 similar sashes. Moulded 4-panel door with sidelights and fanlight in semi-elliptical arch; 3 stone steps with wrought iron handrail each side, each with 4 plain stanchions and a cast iron newel with knob. Plain boarded door to passage at right end, in simple doorcase with paterae and moulded flat canopy. Double vehicle gates to left have spiked top rails, posts with cast iron thistle finials, and shallow arch over of square wrought iron bar with a central twist. Pargetting in low relief dated 1902. In the left side of the right rear wing, on the first floor, is a C19 horizontal sash of 12+12 lights. The rear elevation of the left rear wing has a C19 French window with marginal lights, and above it, an C18 Gothick sash of 6+6 lights with wide flat glazing bars. The entrance-hall, between the 2 parts of the main range, has an early C19 quarter-turn stair with wreathed handrail, stick balusters and scrolled tread-ends. In the ground-floor room to the right is a white marble fire surround.

Listing NGR: TL8518122618